Nubank

Tech Lead Software Engineer

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3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$168k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for multiple teams and align initiatives with business areas and architecture strategies.
  • Design and deliver resilient, flexible, and scalable solutions for distributed systems serving large user populations.
  • Mentor engineers across teams and maintain a high technical standard across the organization.
  • Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain software; participate in pairing and code reviews.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new customer experiences.
  • Ensure observability, performance monitoring, and error handling across team services.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents.
  • Focus primarily on backend applications while contributing to mobile and frontend development when business needs require it.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale systems serving thousands or millions of users.
  • Strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages and ability to work across multiple languages.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams without direct authority.
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations.
  • Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and previous CI/CD experience.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining trade-offs and preventing risks with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Advanced English skills.

Benefits

  • Health insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Pension plan.
  • Extended maternity and paternity leave.
  • Nucleo learning platform and courses.
  • NuLanguage language learning program.
  • NuCare mental health and wellness assistance program.
  • Vacations.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSClojureKubernetesPrometheus

Categories

Nubank

About Nubank

10,000+ employees

Nubank is a digital banking platform for consumers and small businesses in Latin America, offering a no-fee credit card, accounts, payments, lending, and investments through Nu Asset Management. It monetizes via interchange, interest, and product fees within its app-based ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in São Paulo, it serves over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia and is listed on the NYSE (ticker: NU).

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